WHISTLES & BELLS IN CELEBRATION OF WOMEN'S RIGHT TO VOTE
Chicago, Los Angeles & Boston (JFK+50) On August 28, 1920, whistles and bells sounded at Noon in celebration of women's right to vote as guaranteed by the recent passage of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Carrie Chapman Catt called for whistles and bells all across the land.
In Chicago, Mayor William Thompson asked citizens to participate in the "ringing of bells, blowing of whistles, (and) sounding of horns."
In Los Angeles, Mayor Meredith Snyder requested the city's industrial plants blow their whistles at noon.
In Boston, two suffrage flags flew over City Hall and a "huge rally" was held in Faneuil Hall.
Despite the celebrations, Alice Paul said...
"With their power to vote achieved, women still have...the task of supplementing political equality with equality in other fields. Women are not yet on an equal basis with men."
SOURCES
"August 28, 1920," by David Dismore, Turning Point, Suffragist Memorial, www.suffragistmemorial.org/
"August 28, 1920: Whistles and Bells Sound at Celebrations Across the Nation for Suffrage," August 28, 2014, Feminist Majority Foundation, www.feminist.org/
Bells & Whistles
August 28, 1920
Feminist Majority Foundation
